Dr Pierre: Chatbots can produce propaganda on a massive scale. Dr Frances: How is chatbot propaganda more powerful and potentially psychologically harmful than previous methods? Dr Pierre: Part of the power and danger of chatbot propaganda is its vast scale and reach. I am even more pessimistic than Dr Pierre about our ability to resist the coming avalanche of increasingly sophisticated and fast moving chatbot propaganda. Hagen L, Jingnan H, Nguyen A. Elon Musks’s AI chatbot, Grok, started calling itself ‘MechaHitler’.

Source: Washington Post January 27, 2026 15:07 UTC